VII: Class VII

Assignment: In Your Own Words, Respond to this Question: In the story “A Rose for Emily,” was Emily fenced in? Write in a Stream of Consciousness. Refer to Sandburg’s poem “A Fence.”

What Is Writing in A Stream of Consciousness?

Writing is an open-ended time of discovery for me.

Some of you are logical, sequential thinkers, and the logical approach to writing will appeal more to you. But there are other types of thinkers who need to approach any writing assignment in a less structured and less linear way. I simply want both times of writers to have an equal opportunity for success in my class. For this writing assignment, I want you to tr writing in a stream of consciousness.

Through writing in a stream of consciousness, an aspiring writer can connect to his intuition, and ultimately, a person’s intuition will do the heavy lifting for the creating portion of writing a paper or a story or a poem or whatever else. Even when I am writing technical essays, I begin my first drafts with a stream-of-consciousness approach to writing.

What Is the Intuition and How Does It Work:

In a stream of consciousness, write a paragraph in response to the following question:

Assignment: In Your Own Words, Respond to this Question: In the story “A Rose for Emily,” was Emily fenced in? Write in a Stream of Consciousness. Refer to Sandburg’s poem “A Fence.” Write in a Stream of Consciousness. This is an opinion paper. There is no right or wrong answer. I want to hear your opinion.

I will not check this paragraph for spelling, punctuation, etc. After you begin writing, I don’t want you to stop to correct yourself in any way. I don’t want you to stop at all. Just write freely.

Please observe the due date. I’ll deduct 10 points per day after the due date. If your paragraph is 5 days late, I’ll give you a zero.

Writing in a Stream of Consciousness is particularly good for anyone who is anxious about writing. It helps writers get over their fears of writing. It helps curb writer’s block. But in order for this to happen, it is important that you don’t stop writing to edit. Write First Edit Later.

Write First, Edit Later – Don’t Write & Edit at the Same Time

VIII: Class VIII

Assignment: Read Meyer & Miller pgs. 1486-1488.

Assignment: First Full Essay

 

•  Paper 1: Discuss ways that Faulkner used the themes of darkness versus light in “A Rose for Emily.” If you prefer, you can talk about how Faulkner harnessed the Circles of Life in his story. Either way that you elect to approach the story, you will need to write a thesis statement first:

• The broad topic that you must address is the darkness versus the light in the story, but you must decide how you will frame your answer. Once you decide what you want to say about the darkness versus the light in “A Rose for Emily,” you must formulate your thesis statement. Remember that your essay will have one main thesis statement, and each paragraph must support that main thesis statement. The paper must have at least 5 paragraphs, and each paragraph must support the main thesis statement of the paper. Each paragraph will have a topic sentence, and each of the sentences in each paragraph must support the topic sentence of that paragraph.

Please Note That the Title of Your Paper Will Not be A Rose for Emily.

The Title of Your Paper Will Be A Short Phrase that States the Topic or the Thesis Statement of Your Entire Paper.

Every Paragraph in Your Paper Should Somehow Support that Title, Which Is the Topic of Your Paper.

Your Thesis Statement for Your Paper is due tomorrow night. Once I have graded and approved your thesis statement for your paper, write your immediate thoughts about your topic in a stream of consciousness.

Your stream-of-consciousness first draft of your paper is due in 2 nights.

After I grade your first draft and approve that, you will outline the points of your paper. That outline is due in 1 week. After I have graded and approved your outline, write the final draft of your first paper.

Do not begin to write your final paper until I have graded and approved each of the assignments before that final writing.

Your paper must include a Works Cited page at the end.

 

Because it is difficult to create a bibliographical reference for a story that is inside a collection of stories, I have created the proper Work Cited entry for Faulkner’s entire story “A Rose for Emily.” This is a one-time-only assist to get you started

Faulkner, William. “A Rose for Emilly.” The Compact Bedford Introduction to Literature, edited by Michael Meyer and D. Quentin Miller, 12th ed., Bedford/St. Martin’s, 2020, pp. 40-46.

In-Text Quotations:

Be sure you use correct quotation marks and attribute your sources within the text of your paper.

Format for if the Quote is On One Page of Your Text:

“It was a big, squarish frame house that had once been white, decorated with cupolas and spires and scrolled balconies in the heavily lightsome style of the seventies, set on what had once been our most select street.”

Faulkner, William. “A Rose for Emily.” Meyer and Miller. 40.

If the Quote is On Two or More Pages of Your Text:

“Colonel Sartoris invented an involved tale to the effect that Miss Emily’s father had loaned money to the town…”

[Note that I did not quote the entire sentence, and the three periods form an ellipse, which indicates that words have been left out of the quote.]

[If you look at your textbook, you will see that these words appear partly on page 40 and also on page 41.  In cases such as that, you will indicate both pages in your in-text citation.]

Faulkner, William. “A Rose for Emily.” Meyer and Miller. 40-41.

My paper might read something like this:

William Faulkner’s Story “A Rose for Emily” exposes an element of hypocrisy. Rather than admit that he no longer was wealthy, Mr. Grierson became part of the falsehood that he did not owe the city any money at all: “Colonel Sartoris invented an involved tale to the effect that Miss Emily’s father had loaned money to the town…” “Faulkner, William. “A Rose for Emily.” Meyer and Miller. 40-41.

My paper would continue to talk about elements of the Southern Myth or about how the Griersons were hypocrites, and at the end of the paper, I would add a Work Cited Reference as follows;

Add A Work or Works Cited Section at the End of Your Paper

Work Cited

Faulkner, William. “A Rose for Emilly.” The Compact Bedford Introduction to Literature, edited by Michael Meyer and D. Quentin Miller, 12th ed., Bedford/St. Martin’s, 2020, pp. 40-46.

If I had used several references in writing my paper, I would also add the other references in this same spot.